AntlerRiverLeather

I use commercial powder pigments kettle point had a selection meant for fabrics that worked really well. I haven't tried leather dye but maybe the water stain offered by ecoflo at tandy may work I would test it before doing a big batch you want non bleeding permanent deep penetrating color. Treat it as a porous delicate fabric when dyeing and I'm sure that many techniques will work.

Thanks. $6 per sq ft. From a guy in Toronto I just met recently having trouble getting more posted out to me right now. However $6-$7 for moose or buffalo in oneida. Trying to get more right now but having trouble it's pow wow season right now coming to a end and they're vendors and it's a traveling circuit. I don't like paying Tandys price on elk or deer. Or anything native heritage it feels like jacked up prices when there's local stuff available. I dabble with quills but I'm not a teacher. I don't know anyone locally teaching it alot local are self taught. It's fairly straightforward with no real secrets to clean though small tub, soap and lukewarm water, and lots and lots of hours to clean carefully by hand and then paper thinned out single layers to dry out and then sort out (this is where you can bulk dye and sort after or sort first and dye your sorted piles for what colors you need.)( I bulk dye big handfuls of what I want and sort it out after because I'm not good at dyeing and some close up and become only really useable for flat work when I dye)

Base template for the belt is from Al Stohlmans: Big Book of Belts. I plug embossed some strawberries. Having fun embossing.

Aanii (hello) Thanks for making me feel welcome and thanks for sharing that indeed you are right. Miigwetch (thanks)

Thanks. Client approved the design before I started on the tooling. It was chosen for the design by their request.

It's already been picked up by the client. I brought the soft leather about half a inch over the heavy gusset. (pre punched heavy gusset, veg tan cowhide) gold elk rubber cemented to the gusset and then a diamond awl to pierce the gold elk and find my pre punched holes and hand sew.

It is hand stitched right side out, heavy veg tan gusset, soft 5 oz Gold Elk, 4-5oz front tooling panel, 4 strand round braid same gold elk no pare no core. The button is some kind of live edge branch I got a bunch from a local wood turner pretty cheap for a nice accent. It is not lined.

Hello, new member. From Canada. Little reserve of Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. My background in crafting is mostly indigenous goods like buckskin leather goods, moccasins, medicine pouches, purses, drum bags, flute bags, bead work, rattles. In the last few years I have been learning leather tooling through online resources. I hope to learn more here in the vast wealth of knowledge to go through. Attached is something I finished really recently.